Showing my age but I loved the 'Free' sound. Tons of sobs, Fire and water, Highway, Free live. Saw them live a few times and was at the Isle of Wight festival in 70 where they were awesome. Muddy Waters Blues (a tribute to Muddy Walters) - Paul Rogers Led Zeppelin IV Early Fleetwood Mac Abbey Road - Beatles Ten Years After - TYA Hot August Night - Neil Diamond Hotel California - Eagles
I have quite an elliptic taste and a listen to a few bands that are not commercially successful. But anyway a few of my favourite albums would have to be. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Sonic Youth - Daydeam Nation American Music Club - California Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes The Fall - Grotesque Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycocandy Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead Beck - Mellow Gold Pink Floyd - Meddle This Heat - Deceit Radiohead - Amnesiac Velvet Underground - Loaded Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica Pixies - Surfa Rosa The Cure - Faith Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
It was a great album or should I say is. I first saw them when Peter Green was with them and loved the sound of some of their plaintive blues. Fleetwood Mac have always made some good albums and as for Stevie Nicks?????
Pixies - Dolittle/ Surfer Rosa The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge Slowdive - Souvaki Autectre - Amber dEUS - Worst Case Scenario Curve - Cuckoo The Sophtware Slump Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Dr Octogon - Dr. Octagonecologyst The Knife - Silent Shout Talking Heads - Sand in the Vaseline Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right to Children
I strongly suspect that is very much pre-Rumours. Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac. That's the FM I'd consider. The latter stuff is a load of poppy tish, IMO. Apologies..!
Nice list of bands but i would of picked these albums Slowdive - Pygmalion Talking Heads - Remain in Light/Fear of Music Pavement - Wowee Zowee The Chameleons - Strange Times
The Wall - Pink Floyd Going For The One - Yes Physical Graffiti - Led Zep Musical Chairs - Hootie & The Blowfish The Snake - Shane MacGowan & The Popes (and most Pogues albums, too. Shane MacGowan = Genius!!!) The White Album - The Beatles A Whisky Kiss - Shooglenifty Ladys Bridge - Richard Hawley Black Holes & Revelations - Muse I could go on, but we'd be here all day.
Chameleons for me is toss up between SOFTB and What Does Anything Mean? Basically. Strange Times gets me thinking of another favourite album of mine- Mute by The Catchers Talking Heads...I cheated and chose a compilation, watching and listening to Stop Making Sense is better than the album! Pygmalion - I need to listen to more, I heard Souvaki way before I discovered Loveless, so I kinda have that as my shoegaze album of choice
Howler- America Give Up Tribes- Baby Summer Camp- Welcome To Condale Cracking debuts. Tribes/Howler playing Wedge soon, highly recommend both. Saw Howler at Joiners last month & Tribes at a festival last summer.
I'd also like to throw in Immersion and In Silico by Pendulum, but they're just personal favourites of mine....
You jazz lovers would love Dollar Brand (aka Abdullah Ibrahim) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuMvHgZnl4A&feature=related and also The Blazing Redheads.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1najZ8vAp0
Chilco / St Godders Appreciate the posts. The Abdullah Ibrahim track is terrific - one of the best I have heard. I have quite a loc of his stuff in my collection and saw the current edition of his band Ekayah about 2 years ago at the Anvil in Basingstoke. I think that this is is best group (especially the line up with the brilliant Carlos Ward on alto and the under-rated Rickie Ford on tenor.) I don't think is is that interesting as a solo pianist but his Ellington-inspired groups are terrific. What's not to like? Never heard of "Blazing Redheads" even though I usually think I am pretty switched on to what is happening jazz. Sounds like a latin version of Roy Ayers. Love Latin jazz too - really under-appreciated by most jazz fans but there is some really interesting stuff happening in that scene at the moment. Have you checked out either David Sanchez or Migeul Zenon ? With regard to Seb Rochford, I've heard some of his bands but not really switched on to Polar Bear or Acusitc Ladyland. Peter Wareham, who plays tenor with him, actually comes from North Baddesley where I grew up. His first gig was actually with my late piano teacher, Monty Worlock. He was great friends with Ted Bates and whenever I had a lesson the talk would always get on to Southampton. In fact, there is a photoof him in the Saints 30 years anniversary book celebrating the FA cup win in 1976. I met both Rochford and Wareham at a jazz festival in France several years ago as they were in the lift in the hotel where I stayed. Intersting to see some references to the old late-60's British Blues scene. At the moment I've been listen to a lot of country blues artists like Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Mississppi John Hurt. Got to say that Blind Willie McTell is my favourite. Much prefer the vintage tracks as they really mean't what they sang about as they were talking out their own, true experiences. Ditto with jazz. Fascinated by how it evolved and changed from Louis & Jely Roll Morton through to Coleman Hawkins - Bird - Miles - Duke - Coltrane - Ornette, etc, etc. I'm really a jazz fan (love 1920's jazz right through to contemporary) but also check out quite a bit of Classical music (love Olivier Messaien) and then can find alot to enjoy in the work of someone like Kate Bush. I think that if you have a big for music, you will just explore anything and my Cd collection pretty much reflects that albeit i find a lot of rock (especially white perfomers) very uninspiring. What is there left to say after Hendrix? Cheers Ian
Discovered a great new album recently; a self-titled album by a new band called The Memorials. It's pretty cool prog-rock with a black female vocalist and Thomas Pridgen, ex-drummer of The Mars Volta. Another one of my favourites that isn't very well known is Blue Record by Baroness. It's hard rock with quite heavy and grungy vocals but with retro, Sabbath-esque riffs. Very cool.
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from mars - david Bowie every other album by david bowie Foxtrot - genesis Led Zep IV - led Zep Paranoid - Black Sabbath Close to the edge - yes Transformer - Lou Reed
